What a very good thing that all that wealth didn't go into such hands, isn't it?
Mr.Mutimer will at all events use it in a decent way; it won't be scattered in vulgar dissipation .-- Now kiss me, dear.

I haven't been scolding you, pet; it was only that I felt I had perhaps made a mistake in not telling you these things before, and I blamed myself rather than you.' Mrs.Waltham returned to her own room, and after a brief turning over of speculations and projects begotten of the new aspect of things, found her reward for conscientiousness in peaceful slumber.

But Adela was late in falling asleep.

She, too, had many things to revolve, not worldly calculations, but the troubled phantasies of a virgin mind which is experiencing its first shock against the barriers of fate..